Den 24. april 2012 15:41, skrev Alan Bell: > Most of the lenses I want to write are for local applications that > require authentication. So I might want a lens for OpenERP, for > Alfresco, for vTiger CRM, for a local bugzilla, or even for > proprietary stuff, like a SAP lens or a Peoplesoft lens. I don't know > how to ask the user for credentials. What I kind of want to do is have > the lens in a dormant state until the user visits the lens and > provides their configuration information. Something like this: > > http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/authlens.png > > there are a number of outstanding questions I don't know the answers > to for this: > > Where should the credentials be stored (gnome-keyring?) > > What to do if there are multiple scopes providing data for one lens? > > How to present oauth type connections? > > Has anyone else got lenses that connect to sources that require > authentication? > > Alan >
I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone of the http://lists.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-app-devel mailinglist. (I'm CCing it). I don't think logging in and that type of stuff should be done in lenses at all. I'd present the user with a normal dialog if there isn't a valid OAuth token. But it is an interesting question. Perhaps "Authorization required" should be seen as messages and added to the message menu with a red envelope? Just an idea. Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
